Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-04-30
POOLING THE BRITISH.
Anecdotes of the bays of 1912 As Thsy
Passed on Long island.


BRouEI.YN April - Ia 1872 The English
sloop of wsr Sylph went ashore IN gale of
Southampton amt every one ou board WAS
lost but the pur~er He was washed on the
beach ins.m,ihle Ia rsviying him his res
cuerS were obliged to"tt his boots from his
feet On coming to, his first act was TO treat
his preServeTS Ia every oath az that time iu
use in the British navy, for sOoiiing his boots
He was kept prisoner Of war IN socia-
bic sort of fashion at the house Of a relative
II NINE ami after the peace went 20 New
York, Engaged IN nu>ipeSS and made for
tune His name was Parsons.
\ boat !nad OF English came ON shore at
Montauk point one day from the feet, killed
one Of Nir Hands cows and carried 1t on
hoari Hand imprs~-3 an Indian at the
point Of his IawhGe Ia paddle him in q canoe
To the udmirai~ ship. lie clamh-red over the
sid. and when asked his business, said hs
wanted 10 I've paid for that COW, and If hs
was no; paid he Hand. with his one Indian.
his canoe and his rawhide. would take IL out
Of the English fleet The admiral being in
formed of this demand, enforced by two men,
one canoe aud a rawbIde, came on deck and,
telling Hand that he WAS the bravest ani
most lmpudent American or any other man
paid This y another proof OF the saying that
no one ever knows what lie can do till he
tries. Many monumental ton Of stone
stands over reputed heroes who could not Do
what Hand did. Napoleon would have made
Hand a mar>hai-if of nothing else, of torch
light procession. am not quite certain that his
name was Hand But he belonged 70 one IT
the half dozen original families constituting
81. .t L..
settlement OF Long Island, and any one down
there will give You his right name, il IL WAS
not Hard.
During the war Of 1872 the people of East
Hampton kept cannon on the town com
mons To- ie tired alarm signal if the
English landed II was fired one night and
the town turned out. some with muskets and
some in their night gowns, To repel the in
vaders But the invader would not he re-
PEELED, because he hadn't come He was on
the fleet awakened by he report and wonder
ing who might be about TO attack him. !,
was only COW which had alarmed the easily
frightened SentInel-s COW which bad ad-
vanced but could not give the counssrxs~
when haIled. Now. my uncle. Jeremiah Mu,-
ford, was born scamp. He reished the alarm
and all the consequent excitement, and wanted
more OF it SO he cOncluiei he'd have that
gun fired over again. lie put up the job with
two other lesser scamls. Friction matches
were not known Ia those days. the alarm
lists kept the Schoo! house wood fire burning Al
night Ia secure the live coal necessary 70
touch of the gun. Jeremiah rammsd down
the charge with "a stove handle, touched her
of, was knocked down by the recon Of the
piece got Il half blinded, ran home, crawled
into the window and into bed a. everybody
else was getting out armed and equipped a.
the law directs The men We're taking down
their fintl0Ck mu>kets with shaking hands,
the women were putting up the shutters ~
barricaie the houses jeremiah heard one Of
the towns prominent men, as he rode up -
the house "f his -on-in law, crying cut:
Daniel Daniel Get up, One guns Sons
of, and another, going pretty soon"
The town was sold again. and mauy were
glad 10 be sold out in this way The select
men Offered a reward for the offenders. Jere-
mah was au UnCommnnlv good and quiet
boy for many days. His sister, nv Aunt Ur-
slla. had her >u>pirious, for she knew he
Wa generally either At the bottom OF top Of
all the mischief done IN the place. IL was he
who had once inserted a chestnut burr under
the tail ot her Nnuug man'> mare, causing
that animal distressing physical sensations
aud itS rider results still more agonizinS.
There was another who sus-
pectei Jeremiah. II was the old
"codger- who made all the hick-
ory ak helves and hoe handles for the town.
He had found one Of his hoe handles uear the
gun next morning and knew the family il
belonged TO He knew Jerry also. He met
Jerry in Il retired spot about a week after
ward and confronted him with that hos
handle But he made no charge. He said
only: y-leTrV-hunl--Isn' this your
hoe handle" Jerrys face was one of i'm
pervIOus Innocence. Jerry. Jerry! Oh,
Jerry" said the hoe handle detective, and
then he smiled and walked away. He never
-peached. PRENTICE MULFoRp.